Foreign media: Christmas toys and games or dangers lead to increased accidental injuries

The most harmful injuries are riding toys, including scooters and ATVs . Photography: Alami

ChinaNet December 24, according to the British "Guardian" website reported on December 21, no one wants to think about security, but is said to be boring, but shouldn't we be a responsible Santa?

You are rushing to the toy store and carefully picking a gift to make your child cheer. How are you doing your work? The US Consumer Product Safety Commission released a report on accidental deaths and injuries caused by toys in 2013. Have you seen it? The British Medical Journal recently published a research report on Nintendo computer games threatening human health. Have you read it? This month, the clinical pediatrics said that from 1990 to 2011, the risk of toys causing harm to children and adolescents increased by 40%. Have you read this report? No one wants to be considered boring because of security, and no one wants to wrap their children in the hustle and bustle. But shouldn't we be a responsible Santa?

Solution

The US report shows that toys are less likely to die. Most of them are suffocating deaths when the scorpion gets stuck in small parts. Therefore, the purchase of toys and the appropriate age of the child are crucial. Your two-year-old nephew may develop very quickly and his cognition is relatively mature, but he still has the idea of ​​putting small pieces of small things into his mouth. Some of my children are like this, and they don’t do it until they are five years old. So, pay more attention to your child. Especially beware of button batteries and bursting balloons.

According to the report and the clinical paediatric report, the most harmful injuries are riding toys, including scooters and similar Barbie Jeep electric vehicles. Of the children admitted to the hospital, 43% were related to playing such toys. They have cuts, sprains, broken bones, head injuries and so on. Many people were injured because they fell from the car to the ground, and some people were hit by the car. Dr. Gary Smith is an author of the Journal of Clinical Pediatrics. He recommends that people buy a helmet when they buy a scooter. As the dog seller said: "The real danger is not the dog, but their master." From this point of view, what is really to be blamed is the supervision of the parents, not the toy itself.

With the development of game consoles , the health hazards brought about by the game have also changed. According to the South African Medical Journal, the "handle game" can make the player's thumb blister or even peel. "Any tendinitis" (a game that causes repetitive strain injuries in people for a long time) can cause damage to the player's wrists and elbows. Among the obsessed players of the "Wii Sports", there have been people who have smashed the TV with the remote control handle. Some players are also injured accidentally, such as: leg fractures, dislocation of the knee, knee ligament strain, maxillofacial trauma. A 55-year-old woman fell on the sofa while playing Wii tennis, causing a lot of blood to flow into the lungs. When a seven-year-old boy played the game, the handle accidentally caught his eye, and unfortunately one eye was blind. The “Wii Movement” seems to be very dangerous. However, the British medical journal said that in fact, if people do not wave their handles, choose a position to stand, and rest properly, the risk of this game is very low.

Therefore, what really needs to be taken care of is to fully prepare for the situation and prevent it from happening. (Internship Compilation: Yu Ting)